I have at long last installed a Rear View Camera in my 2015 Mk3 Elegance. this came with Park Pilot which I reckon I have tried out twice in the 5 years,

In the last 5 years the front and rear sensors only activated after selecting reverse then ceased to beep until reverse was selected again.

 

I made the required code changes with OBD11 in relation to the camera and Park Pilot (thanks Sasha😀) .

All seemed okay and the camera worked well (Could do with better resolution) so off I drove. Needed to keep well left on a corner due to on comimg car, kept close the hedge and the F/NS sensor started beeping. Very odd as it had never done this without reverse being used first. It seems that somehow I have activated the sensors to activate without the need to select reverse first, tried a 60mph run down to around 20 close to the hedge and BEEP, BEEP, off it went again. I need to test it in traffic to see if this is repeated on the front center sensors but just wondered if any others having done this reverse camera install have come across this change in sensor sensing? Or can offer an explanation of what has changed?

 

On 18/12/2019 at 17:44, SashaGrace said:

 

You will need to code it, 5F Byte 19 Bit 4 enable reverse camera low and 76 Park Pilot Long Coding, Camera type enable rearview low.

Ohps, not engaged brain when I wrote the first line:

..........this came with Park Pilot which I reckon I have tried out twice in the 5 years,........

 

I should have written Park Assist.

 

Anyone got any ideas why the front sensors now seem active?

They work in my car since day one like you describe - my car is in factory condition, nothing was altered ever and I don't have RVC. You don't need to reverse first, front sensor work in slow commuting always, let's say first and second gear. 

 

They also work on quite longer distance in traffic, like 5m or something, so in dense traffic they beep on the car entering my line of driving. Is it a feature, or just a side effect of Doppler principle, I don't know. Sometimes it is really helpful to raise your attention to the angle out of sight, while looking at the side mirror to check fast approaching vehicles, and another car is doing the same crossing your lane (happens in traffic here often, either you jump in the empty space quickly, or you wait forever).

 

Edited 24 August, 20205 yr by nidza

32 minutes ago, nidza said:

They work in my car since day one like you describe - my car is in factory condition, nothing was altered ever and I don't have RVC. You don't need to reverse first, front sensor work in slow commuting always, let's say first and second gear. 

 

They also work on quite longer distance in traffic, like 5m or something, so in dense traffic they beep on the car entering my line of driving. Is it a feature, or just a side effect of Doppler principle, I don't know. Sometimes it is really helpful to raise your attention to the angle out of sight, while looking at the side mirror to check fast approaching vehicles, and another car is doing the same crossing your lane (happens in traffic here often, either you jump in the empty space quickly, or you wait forever).

Same here the sensors have always been active when stopped or moving slowly - which on a single track Devon road with passing places means we hear the side sensors beeping a lot when squeezed into a passing place!

Thanks guys. Maybe it has never worked correctly since day 1! Weird though, I have driven over 20k miles and not heard a peep out of them except when parking. At least I now know it was not something I did wrong with the coding.